CEMENT DUMPED AT SEA, ENGINEERS ALLEGE

Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 4

CEMENT DUMPED AT SEA, ENGINEERS ALLEGE

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 28. An allegation that cement at one of the two cement works in the South Island was being dumped into the sea because of the difficulty in carting it away led to a brisk discussion at to-night’s meeting of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Professional. Engineers’ Association. “ One cement company in the South Island is so crammed full with cement they cannot get rid of that it is being dumped, and the men are being put on short time,” said Mr H. S. Sutherland. A Alember: That will be at TaraIkolie. “ And yet,” Air Sutherland continued, “ hardly an engineer is not affected in his work by the lack of cement.” Air J. AI. Graham said that part of the trouble in the past had been that the watersiders at West Coast ports had not agreed to handle cement. Colliers had actually gone empty from Tarakohe to Westport while cement was railed from Dunedin to Westport. In a brief discussion that followed, reference was made to the importation at dollar cost of cement from the United States when it was going to waste for lack of transportation at a New Zealand works. Alembers claimed that facts such as these should be made known to the public dispassionately and without any attempt to engage in. areument or controversy.